Stevens to offer graduate certificate in Healthcare Information Technology Management

HOBOKEN , N.J. ― This fall, Stevens Institute of Technology will launch the country’s first graduate certificate program at a management school to prepare professionals for careers in the healthcare industry.

The four courses in the new graduate certificate, Healthcare Information Technology Management, willprovide the knowledge needed to develop, acquire, and implement effective information technology solutions for in-patient and ambulatory settings, as well as home-health solutions. Focusing on administrative, clinical and patient-centered e-health systems, the certificate is also part of a new graduate concentration in Stevens’ Howe School of Technology Management Master’s in Information Systems and MBA programs. For more information on these programs visit the site http://howe.stevens.edu/academics/graduate-programs/information-systems/curriculum/it-in-healthcare/.

For healthcare professionals taking on new or increasing computer implementation roles, an introductory course in healthcare IT management is offered as a substitute first course for the certificate program.

The courses will be offered this fall on Saturdays at Stevens’ Hoboken , N.J. campus and weekday evenings at other New Jersey locations convenient to working professionals. The certificate will also be delivered through WebCampus, Stevens’ award-winning online unit, starting next spring.

Stevens’ management and information systems graduate programs build careers for working professionals, providing practical, real-world management knowledge coupled with technical skills. The programs nurture team leadership, interpersonal communication, and analytic skills needed for innovative IT solutions.

The certificate is under the advisory of a distinguished industry board, including hospital chief information officers, senior managers in healthcare IT services firms and pharmaceutical companies, as well as physicians and nurses. The certificate was created in response to anticipated rapid growth in adopting computer systems in the nation’s hospitals and medical practices.

“While healthcare is under pressure to adopt advanced computing solutions to improve the quality of care, especially patient safety, the pool of savvy professionals to support these new investments is vastly inadequate. Some predict the need for 40,000 new information technology jobs in healthcare alone in the next few years,” said Carol V. Brown, Program Director.

Dr. Brown, Distinguished Professor at Stevens’ Howe School , heads the school’s new program in IT for the healthcare industry. She holds an MBA and Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Indiana University-Bloomington, where she recently taught at the Kelley School . Earlier, she was on the faculty of Purdue University .

For more information on the program, please contact Carol Brown at ( 201) 216-5581 or Carol.Brown@stevens.edu.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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